Thanks a lot to Ben Goodger, we've got a shiny new downloads manager! It replaces the downloads sidebar and the progress windows!

It supports pause/resume within the current session, shows total and downloaded size, speed and a progress bar.
New downloads fade in as they begin transferring. Gorgeous!
You can open completed downloads by double-clicking, or open its folder by clicking on "show".
When all downloads are complete a mail-biff style notification appears in the bottom right of the screen (Windows only).

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firebird/qa/downloads.html wrote:Exiting - when the application is quit either by File->Exit or by the user closing all windows, if there are active downloads the user should be warned with a dialog (parented to the download manager, if it is open, to some other window if it is not) that shows the number of downloads that will be canceled. If the user chooses to cancel the quit, the quit command is aborted and the application remains open so the downloads can complete.

My question is, how does the "Download Folder" option work? By default, it's set to store downloaded files to "Desktop," but Firebird does ask me where I want the file to be stored in first. Since I don't see any relevant entry in prefs.js, I'd imagine it doesn't work until you set it to something else?

[EDIT] Changing the download directory value has created the following entries in prefs.js:

daihard wrote:[snip]user_pref("browser.download.dir", "/home/dtoyama");[/code]So yes, this does seem to be a bug. By default, the same entries should be present in prefs.js that point to "/home/dtoyama/Desktop".

Don't be so quick to edit your prefs file. You should (unless there's a bug) be able to pick any dir you like from the UI, using the dropdown list (choose "Other..." to select). This is not new though, it's been in FB since before 0.7.

The reason I can't use Firebird's download manager is that everytime my connection wobbles a bit (which it does a lot) the file being downloaded stops as if it had completed. It ends up in my downloads dir but only partially complete. Is there a bug # for this, or any hope it may be fixed?

I get the same problem. The drivers I use for my wireless card tend to get a bit flaky in poor signal environments, and when my AP link drops so does my download. Amazingly, though, after kicking the drivers a few times, I have seen my downloads resume.

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firebird/qa/downloads.html wrote:Completion Notification - when all downloads are complete a mail-biff style notification appears in the bottom right of the screen (Windows). The link in the notification is clickable if the completed downloads are still present in the download manager list, that is, if the retention policy is not set to "Remove upon successful download".

The link is clickable, but it doesn't work (retention policy = manual).